581st ARC Wing organization

“Arnold commanded one arm of this clandestine group, which would make him an inviting catch, but it was compartmentalized and he had no idea the environment in which he was actually operating. It was minutes before midnight on January 12th, …”

“One was James Darby, D-A-R-B-Y, who in World War II had served in a clandestine unit called the Carpetbaggers, and I've read about these guys, which airdropped agents in Nazi-occupied France for the OSS, which was the forerunner to the CIA.…”

“At the time, Arnold commanded the unit. He said CIA money helped finance some 581st operations. The CIA officer he recalled only by the name Hall would regularly accompany Darby to the unit's finance office to make cash deliveries. There we…”

“Details of actual ARC operations are hard to find. ARC veterans say their unit did not always make written records because it was classified. This is a quote. It was a matter of keeping it secret from the enemy, and in doing so, we kept it …”

“that trained guerrillas in the Libyan desert to drop CIA-supplied weapons where? Oh, in the Balkans in 1950. There is little doubt the CIA masterminded the Ark. A top-secret 1953 Pentagon report said Air Force unconventional warfare operati…”